I've been developing some code to make it easier to develop clients that can migrate, (and replicate), windows from one display to another. It's coming along now, and it is fun to see windows just move from one display to another.
The issue I'm currently struggling with is what to do with window properties. Certainly, it would be desirable to migrate many window properties to the new display, (think ICCCM hints and _NET* properties from the WM spec). But other properties must not be migrated. Specifically, any property that contains an XID from the old display, or some other data that shouldn't be used on the new display, (ie. properties added by the window manager on the old display). The difficulty, of course, is that it is currently impossible to tell whether the property is portable across displays. Perhaps we could develop a new mechanism by which properties could be flagged as portable? Suggestions? Ideas? -Carl -- Carl Worth USC Information Sciences Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3811 N. Fairfax Dr. #200, Arlington VA 22203 703-812-3725 _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
